I am looking to possibly move away from my current company who deal with incoming SPAM. We have seen a huge rise of SPAM getting through and I am not particularly happy with them. I would ideally like it cloud based with the possibility of store and forward services. Are there any recommendations? Also whats peoples advise about bringing it in house? Any benefits?

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Barracuda Spam and Virus Filter. Easy to set up and use. No more complaints about spam. What the device doesn't catch from the default set up can be tweaked to include the few that slip through at first. But, very few slipped through. One of three Barracuda appliances I use and I am pleased with all three.

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Barracuda Spam and Virus Filter. Easy to set up and use. No more complaints about spam. What the device doesn't catch from the default set up can be tweaked to include the few that slip through at first. But, very few slipped through. One of three Barracuda appliances I use and I am pleased with all three.

To give you an idea of how much it blocks - during a typical workday 40% of traffic is blocked as spam. On the weekends it can reach as high as 50-60% of total traffic. You can even see if you get a real heavy onslaught of spam from one particular ip or ip range. If it is a high level from one source I will block the ip or ip range at the outside router. That way the traffic is blocked before it gets to the Barracuda.

If you really want to protect the network get a Barracuda Web Filter while you are at it.

The other good thing about Barracuda is you can pick and choose between a physical or virtual appliance. We've just put in the 300 appliance and i'm very happy, it generates some nice reports on email usage/statistics too.

We recently switched to McAfee SaaS Spam Filtering and we have been really pleased with and the price is reasonable. I believe we pay $2 a month per-email address with almost unlimited email alias's. So we have around 100 employee's so our filter costs us like $200 a month (pretty cheap) and we don't have to manage a physical appliance onsite or keep up with maintenance costs. The service has built in "DR" services which we like a lot. Basically if McAfee cannot connect to our Exchange server all emails are "queued" at McAfee's SaaS interface where users can check, respond, and send new emails in the event our Exchange server is offline for an extended period of time. We get very little SPAM that makes it through the filtering. The checking, daily SPAM reports (or more often if you configure) and login is all simple.

We recently switched to McAfee SaaS Spam Filtering and we have been really pleased with and the price is reasonable. I believe we pay $2 a month per-email address with almost unlimited email alias's. So we have around 100 employee's so our filter costs us like $200 a month (pretty cheap) and we don't have to manage a physical appliance onsite or keep up with maintenance costs.

Out of curiosity, how does $2/mo for just email filtering get considered cheap? Considering Rackspace will give you this plus hosted email for half that price, it seems outrageously expensive - also unlimited aliases. Or Office 365 is only $4/mo which is pretty cheap considering your paying half that for a tiny piece of the overall service already.

We always use the $2/mo cost of spam/AV hosting as being the financial proof as to why hosted email is the way to go - because at $2/mo there is no financial way to justify not doing hosted email. Especially since all the security risks of cloud hosting is already there but without the big advantages.

I've been very satisfied with MailRoute since we signed up almost a year ago. Almost zero spam gets through now. Likewise, it catches all virus emails too. Doesn't even give our internal A/V Symantec a chance to do its job! LOL.

Sorry for late reply to this post but I have nailed it down to Barracuda and Mimecast. Mimecast is the superior product in my opinion but you do pay a lot more. Any more users have experiences of Barracuda?